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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LEVI H. MILLER, OF DUBLIN, TEXAS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO WILLIAM P. ROSE, OF SAME PLACE.

TOBACCO SUBSTITUTE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 448,925, dated March 24, 1891. Application filed January 17, 1891. Serial No. 378,135. (No specimens.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEVI H. MILLER, of Dublin, in the county of Erath and State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tobacco Substitutes; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use it.

My invention relates to an improvement in tobacco substitutes; and it consists in the combination of ingredients, which will be more fully described hereinafter, and which may either be made into apowder or tablets, as maybe preferred.

The object of my invention is to producea compound which is to be used by those addicted to chewing tobacco, and will completely destroy all desire for it, and thus enable them to discontinue its use without any of the inconvenience or suifering which usually attends the giving up of tobacco by those accustomed to its use.

In preparing my compound I take of powdered gentian root, one ounce; powdered licorice-extract, one ounce; powdered Sassafras-bark, sixty grains; powdered prickly-ash bark, one-half ounce; powdered horse-radish root, sixty grains, powdered calamus-root, sixty grains; powdered jaborandi-bark, sixty grains. This uiixture forms a powder, which must be dipped the same as snuff; but if it is desired to form the powder into a tablet for the use of those who wish to chew it, enough of the extract of gentian will be added to the compound to form it into a thick paste, which is formed into tablets of any desired size, shape, or form.

Persons who have been in the habit of dipping snuff can dip the powdered compound,

vwhile those who wish to chew it will use the LEVI H. MILLER.

Witnesses 0. W. TRAVIS, J. S. GERGUMES. 

